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  Focaccia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Focaccia is quite popular in Italy and is usually seasoned with olive oil and herbs, topped with cheese and meat or flavored with a number of vegetables.
Focaccia doughs are similar in style and texture to pizza doughs consisting of high-gluten flour, oil, water, sugar, salt and yeast.
Focaccia is used extensively as a sandwich bread outside of Italy.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Focaccia   (233 words)

  
 Focaccia al Rosmarino
Focaccia is like a thick pizza, but with a more bread-like texture.
The size of the focaccia may be adjusted to accommodate the desired thickness.
Drizzle the surface of the focaccia with extra-virgin olive oil and sprinkle it to taste with salt and rosemary leaves.
www.theartisan.net /Focaccia.htm   (947 words)

  
 Focaccia Bread - Sandwiches
The basic recipe for focaccia is thought to have originated with the Etruscans and were simple mixtures of flour, water, and salt that used for baking the most common and available source of heat for everyone — the home’s fire.
Focaccia doughs are then most commonly combined with herbs, a variety of cheeses and other ingredients in their raw mix.
Focaccia are a great tool for home chefs and restaurateurs alike; it is not as perishable as commercially baked breads and is easily kept by freezing or using air-tight containment.
www.bellaonline.com /articles/art38220.asp   (468 words)

  
 Focaccia
This recipe for focaccia, along with all its variations, is the result of some extensive experimentation by Jack Bishop and was highlighted in a recent issue of Cook's Illustrated.
Focaccia with Black Olives and Thyme: Follow the recipe for Rosemary Focaccia, substituting 1 tsp fresh thyme leaves and 24 pitted large fl olives (one per dimple) for the rosemary.
Sage Focaccia: Follow the recipe for Rosemary Focaccia, adding 1 TBS chopped fresh sage leaves with the other dough ingredients, and substituting 24 whole fresh sage leaves (one per dimple) for the rosemary.
www.molsol.com /Cooking/focaccia.html   (789 words)

  
 SR.com: First-time focaccia
And just like pizza, focaccia can be finished with a variety of creative toppings both savory and sweet, from a creamy paste of gorgonzola with thyme to a crunchy turban of coarse sugar.
Focaccia often begins with a starter or sponge made with a small amount of yeast, water and flour.
Focaccia dough is shaped on a shallow, rectangular baking pan.
www.spokesmanreview.com /tools/story_pf.asp?ID=49087   (2323 words)

  
 Focaccia: bread on the rise - On Food - Column Nation's Restaurant News - Find Articles
And on the menu for the cafe and the restaurant there is focaccia robiola, a thin, crusty, evenly pock-marked rosemary flatbread served warm, oozing mellow robiola cheese and perfumed with white truffle oil.
At Square One in San Francisco, a walnut and grape focaccia is served with grilled goat cheese wrapped in grape leaves and figs wrapped in prosicutto.
The focaccia sandwich also is-featured at T-Rex, a fairly new operation in Manhattan's Chelsea district that is a makeover of Fiasco.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m3190/is_n7_v28/ai_15013295   (817 words)

  
 Lucia Ristorante (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.isi.jhu.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Focaccia with hot pepperoni and regional Pecorino cheese.
Focaccia with spaghetti tossed with Sammarzano tomato, mozzarella and Pecorino cheeses.
Focaccia with mozzarella cheese and a sprinkle of extra virgin olive oil.
www.luciaristorante.com.cob-web.org:8888 /focaccia.htm   (260 words)

  
 virtualitalia.com - food - focaccia primer
Americans have discovered focaccia and, as they did with pizza, and as San Franciscans did with pesto, they have adopted it as their own and are enjoying the classic recipes and inventing new recipes and new ways to eat it.
Focaccia is a type of savory Italian bread that may have various toppings such as onion or cheese.
Focaccia are generally baked in a fiat sheet pan, and then served cut in various sizes and shapes.
www.virtualitalia.com /recipes/focaccia.shtml   (2940 words)

  
 Focaccia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Focaccia is delicious sprinkled with rosemary and topped with tomatoes and olives.
This Italian classic is made by forming yeast dough into a large, flat round, then liberally brushing it with olive oil and sprinkling with salt.
Focaccia comes in large, flat loaves, or smaller loaves suitable for sandwiches.
www.kroger.com /hn/Food_Guide/Focaccia.htm   (182 words)

  
 Fixing focaccia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Focaccia (rhymes with gottcha) is an all-purpose flatbread made with yeast.
Besides being a grill dinner's best partner, it can be toasted for breakfast, split in half and made into sandwiches for lunch, or tucked into a bread basket on the dinner table served with a small pot of pesto for spreading or dipping.
Focaccia can be frozen, well wrapped in foil and placed in a heavy-duty plastic bag.
www.post-gazette.com /pg/05097/483940.stm   (1030 words)

  
 Chef Steff has pizza and a whole lot more at Focaccia Grill
Focaccia (or Fo ka' cha, as the menu helpfully explains) is big on pizzas and pastas.
Focaccia Grill's menu, as Chef Steff says, is part family, part Pittsburgh.
Focaccia Grill is a narrow restaurant, with the bar, pizza oven and open kitchen on one side, and small tables and chairs along the other side.
www.post-gazette.com /dining/20000707dine.asp   (1041 words)

  
 FOCACCIA / Ancient Italian flstbread achieves star status
Warmed and sliced into strips, the made- on-the-premises focaccia is the restaurant's ``house bread.'' Halved and filled with roast pork or with mozzarella and tomato, it yields sandwiches that have made this tiny cafe an almost overwhelming hit for owners Susanna Borgatti and Wally Tettamanti.
Their focaccia sandwiches are simple, too, says Field, perhaps a small round focaccina, split in half, filled with a creamy cheese and a slice or two of prosciutto, then put in a hot oven until the cheese melts.
Focaccia's origins may be shrouded in time, but its near future may be in hip sandwiches like the ones served at the Caffe Museo in San Francisco's new Museum of Modern Art.
www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/1995/03/15/FD26848.DTL   (3465 words)

  
 42 -rosemary and tomato focaccia
Focaccia and schiacciata (flat bread) are common in many parts of central and southern Italy.
Bake the focaccia on the lower shelf of the oven for about 25 minutes, until the surface is golden and the bottom is light brown.
Spread the remaining olive oil, the coarse salt, and the rosemary leaves uniformly on the surface of the focaccia.
www.annamariavolpi.com /page42.html   (322 words)

  
 Rustico: Cheese Focaccia Step-by-Step
The starting point for this focaccia is an unusual, very thin cheese-filled focaccia from the town of Recco in Liguria).
Generously oil a round 14-inch pizza pan (use at least 1 tablespoon--don't be skimpy with the oil or the texture of the focaccia won't be right) and line it with 1 piece of dough, allowing excess dough to hang over the sides (there should be at least 1 inch of excess dough on all sides).
Brush the top of the focaccia with the remaining 2 tablespoons of olive oil and sprinkle it with the remaining ½ teaspoon of salt.
www.rusticocooking.com /focacciasbs.htm   (1708 words)

  
 Focaccia on the Rocks at Daily Dish at Epicurious.com
The homeland of focaccia flatbread is the rocky, sunbaked Italian Riviera, officially known as the Liguria region.
Their favorite breakfast is focaccia con le cipolle, focaccia with sautéed white-onion topping, washed down with a cappuccino.
Moltedo's plain, herb-flecked or onion-topped focaccias are crisp top and bottom, with small pores in the dough and tiny bubblemarks on the surface.
www.epicurious.com /features/news/dailydish/031506   (746 words)

  
 FOCACCIA PUGLIA STYLE
In most parts of Italy, focaccia is a flat bread, often dotted with oil and sprigs of rosemary or bits of tomato, that is quickly baked, like a pizza, on the floor of a wood-fired oven.
Here, the same word, focaccia, also stands for a double-crusted free-form pie, something like a Spanish empanada, that is stuffed with a great variety of fillings.
The dough for focaccia is always a leavened bread dough; in fact, both the Homemade Bread from Bari and the Potato Bread from Foggia make excellent focaccia doughs.
www.e-rcps.com /pasta/breads/foca_pugl.shtml   (1113 words)

  
 Focaccia - The Vegan Forum - a vegan message board
Focaccia is by far my favourite bread, but it's been the hardest for me to make right in the past.
I pretty much perfected focaccia pizza base/doughballs a few years ago, but the fluffier stuff with sundried tomatoes, sweet pepper, olives etc that I can get in waitrose (uk supermarket) has evaded me. I've tried various recipes in other books, but none have been that great.
I haven't actually ever seen a wholewheat focaccia on my limited travels, but I don't know whether wholemeal is a common occurance traditionally or not.
www.veganforum.com /forums/showthread.php?t=5639   (1542 words)

  
 Gotcha, Focaccia!
I lived in Italy for several years and ate many a focaccia in my day, but dealing with yeast and its consequences were foreign and alien territory until I made my very first focaccia a few months ago.
Focaccia (for those out there who might not know) is an Italian peasant bread that doesn’t require a loaf pan or fancy ingredients.
The beginnings of focaccia are linked with those of pizza, but there is no question that focaccia came first.
www.ingestandimbibe.com /Articles_p/focaccia_p.html   (1042 words)

  
 Focaccia
Focaccia has rapidly become one of my favorite "show off for company" recipes; it fills the house with the amazing smells of baking bread and garlic.
Although I have a KitchenAid stand mixer with a dough hook, I don't use it for this recipe; when I tried it I had to add a lot of extra flour to get the dough to come together and wound up with a much denser loaf.
Put the focaccia in the bottom third of the oven to bake.
www.insomniaville.com /recipes/focaccia.htm   (677 words)

  
 Recipe: Rosemary Focaccia (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.isi.jhu.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Check the bottom about halfway through the baking time by lifting the side of the focaccia with a spatula or pancake turner.
Tomato and Olive Focaccia: Omit rosemary from dough.
Cover focaccia with 1 cup chopped and drained canned tomatoes, 1/2 cup halved and pitted fl olives, 3 thinly sliced garlic cloves, 1/4 teaspoon dried oregano, salt and pepper.
nickmalgieri.com.cob-web.org:8888 /recipes/rosemary_focaccia.html   (329 words)

  
 focaccia on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
The focaccia is cooled on a cooling rack, essential for keeping the underside of the crust from getting soft and soggy as water vapor escapes during the cooling process.
I put the focaccia on the heated stone for a few seconds at the end of the baking to crisp up the bottom crust.
The focaccia is sliced into small pieces which can be pulled apart and dipped in the olive oil.
www.flickr.com /photos/drmomentum/3406760   (227 words)

  
 Recipes - Focaccia with Rosemary Recipe
Cut rectangular focaccia into squares or round focaccia into wedges; serve warm.
(Focaccia can be kept on counter for several hours and reheated just before serving.
Or, wrap cooled focaccia in plastic and then foil and freeze for up to 1 month; unwrap and defrost in 325-degree oven until soft, about 15 minutes.
www.foodreference.com /html/focaccia-rosemary.html   (583 words)

  
 Focaccia Fiorentina
The same night, she eats the same pasta with her husband and three daughters.
Daniels, an administrator for Greater Phoenix Leadership, is taking advantage of Focaccia Fiorentina's new family takeout dinner special.
Focaccia Fiorentina's new takeout dinner beats opening a can of tomato sauce to heat and pour over noodles.
www.azcentral.com /home/takeout/articles/0717takeout-CR.html   (347 words)

  
 POTATO FOCACCIA FROM TRIGGIANO - Focaccia di patate
This "focaccia," of course, does not fit my earlier description of a Pugliese focaccia as a double-crusted savory pie.
But focaccia is what Rosa Granozio and her daughter Nicla call this, and focaccia it will be.
Over the top of each rectangle distribute slivers of mozzarella and the tomatoes, bearing in mind that a Pugliese focaccia is very restrained compared to an American version.
www.e-rcps.com /pasta/breads/foca_pot.shtml   (617 words)

  
 Potato Rosemary Focaccia by Peter Reinhart
This focaccia variation, which goes under the name focaccia con patate e rosmarino in Tuscany and "potato pizza" in New York City, is beginning to emerge as the most popular topping among the new generation of focaccia fanciers.
When the focaccia is fully risen and ready to bake, remove the potatoes from the oil, shaking off the excess oil, and spread the slices over the surface of the dough, either randomly or stacked like dominoes.
Remove the finished focaccia from the oven and immediately transfer it to a cooling.
www.leitesculinaria.com /recipes/cookbook/pot_focaccia.html   (864 words)

  
 For Chocolate Lovers Only: September 2002's Recipe for Chocolate-Raspberry Focaccia on StarChefs
When done, the focaccia will be well-risen (it can be difficult to judge when this is done, but 15 minutes is the ideal timing in my oven).
Remove from oven, then immediately remove focaccia to a cooling rack with a broad-bladed metal spatula (be careful doing this; hot bread is always fragile).
Place the cooled focaccia on a flat serving plate at least 11 inches in diameter.
www.starchefs.com /chocolate_lovers/2002/html/september/recipe_02.shtml   (1060 words)

  
 Focaccia alle cipolle - Focaccia with Onions   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
This simple focaccia recipe is perfect for those who like onions.
If the focaccia browns too quickly while baking cover it with tin foil.
Optionally you can cut this onions a little thicker and then sauté them in olive oil until they are soft before adding them to the focaccia.
www.cookingwithpatty.com /recipes/pizza/FocacciaWithOnions.php   (264 words)

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